03-11-12 PM - Testing of Our Faith, Pt. 6

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1 John 2:24-27 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard                                       from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him

Tests to know whether or not we know God

1.Do we keep His commands (2:3-6)

2. Do we love our neighbor (7-11)

3. Do you grow in faith (12-14)

4. Do you love the World (15-17)

5. Do you guard against the antichrist or false teachers. (18-23)

know (ido-to see) if we really know (ginosko-absolutely understand) God.

1John 2:3 And hereby we do know (ginosko –absolutely understand) that we know (ginosko –absolutely understand)  him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know (ido –to see) all things.

ginoskoed (understood) the gospel and do not know God, no matter what you profess or feel. 

1. THE TEST – Does the gospel abide in you? (24)

(24) Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.                                                                                 

“remain” means abide, or dwell- it means not to be carried away with false teachings, or worldly pleasures and possessions.

Gal. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

2. THE PROMISE – Eternal life (25)

And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Once we come to Christ we have eternal life.

Paul said to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

1 Thess. 4 tells us we will be “caught up” to meet the Lord. (seize, catch up or away, pluck, pull , or take by forse) 1 Cor. 15:51-52 says we will be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye.

1John 5:11-12  And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

3. THE WARNING – Some seduce us away from Christ

26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 

The Gnostics -we get our word knowledge from this word gnosis (the learned or intellectuals). "Salvation is by knowledge - self-knowledge." 

“I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” John 14:6

4. THE PROVISION OF GOD – The Holy Spirit (27)

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

1. The Holy Spirit is the anointing

Rom. 8:16-17  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

2. The Holy Spirit is the One who teaches us the truth.

“The Holy Spirit is an all-sufficient means of enabling believers to possess a knowledge of the truth.”

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

3. The Holy Spirit seals, guarantees, and assures us that we do abide in Christ.

2Cor. 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Eph. 1:13-14  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Eph. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 

ginosko (absolutely understand)

ido – (see) Him at work in and through our life.